Reminiscence
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Friday, 25th November 1442
6 hours and 11 iron ores later, I had completed the whole process and had finally attained Level 1 and had accumulated 408/1000 points. This was quite a remarkable achievement since I had taken almost 6 hours over to reach to this point...!
"Daddy, can we go back home already? I want to sleep on the bed rather than here since there's no blanket and also JR had gobbled up all the biscuits and there's nothing else for me to eat also."
I heard what HRH Amy was saying and laughed heartily at those two kids who seemed to be pampered and wanted to spend the night over at the comforts of their own rooms already.
"Alright, children. No problem, we are going off in a while bit. Let's clean up the mess here or else it would clog up my brain too. Hahaha. Don't you think so, my dear children?"
Our children looked at me and then to their Mummy as then back to each other as they began to climb off the sofa and began to clean up the wrappings of biscuits that HRH JR had left lying around.
As for Amy, she flipped the underside of the sofa and underneath the cushion, there was some bread that she had rolled up in a piece of paper for disposal.
"Look at what your daughter had done...! JR would thrash the place but your daughter would stuff bread underneath the bedding?"
"Sheesh... Heather, did you do that when you are still a child? Hahaha... You are breeding ants you know if you keep bread under the bedding."
"Amy, why did you do that? Even if you wrap it in a piece of paper but still you're luring ants over in the realm you know."
I was standing with my hands on my hips as I chided both of them. Not for being messy but trying to be a smart alec. Hahaha...!
Heather was fuming mad because she may be like that when she was younger and since she was the only child in the family, I guess her mother used to spoil her as her parents would bring back a lot of bread after the tea session back in our Manor...!
I wondered how many pieces of bread scraps she had hidden under her bed or maybe she used to feed the bed bugs or her little critters back home. Hahaha...!
"Dear, you better get ready tonight, alright? I'm going to bite you all over. Don't you dare spout nonsense when you never even see me growing up before okay?"
"We used to be playmates but I'm sure we have nothing more than that before and only sharing the goodness that you always have during your team parties only...!"
I could only chuckle when she told me that she wanted to bite me all over. We would be going off to Safehaven tomorrow and I don't think she would dare to do anything to me since it would leave bluish-black bruises that everyone would know that I was already being a part of husband beating. Hahaha...
"Alright children. Its time for us to go now. We had been here too long already. Come on let's pack up and we will leave by then."
Shortly after we had packed our things in the realm, we gathered around and meditated off, and we didn't expend the 9 hours that we initially intend to spend there.
When we meditated off from our state, we were equally tired, even though we had spent only slightly over 2 hours of the real world. We tucked our children in their beds after they had changed into sleepwear.
The children dived straight into the covers and were soon asleep as we went back to our master bedroom on the ground floor.
Heather prepared a pot of fruity tea and was discussing with me about certain matters.
"Dear, next year would be 1443 and in 10 years time, what you had dreamt might come true. Right now it seemed that we had averted the dangers by not staying in the domain anymore."
"But do you think there would be alterations in the future since you had made changes in this period?"
I knew Heather was worried about the future that would come in about 11 years from now and so do I. Since I had seen what had happened before, why should I not worry about what's in store for me in the future to come.
Flashbacks of the dream suddenly crept up to me as I looked back at what happened on that very day. Does it seem that even Ceres dare not give me any indication of what's to come because it is just a guidance system?
Maybe Samuel the Seer would be able to give some insight about this even though it may be too far off in the future for him to predict.
Didn't Eagle had informed me during that time in the dream of what had happened to both Andy Cole and Samuel that time when the conniving shapeshifting trolls were able to disguise themselves as gnomes since their size was alike...!
"Sheesh... Dear, whenever you bring this subject up, I am unable to give you a direct answer. I wished I didn't have that dream and I wished that I do not have the dejavu feeling that u had 4elived some events in our lives twice."
"I felt as if the part where I had returned from the airship after I had initially bombarded the area together with the archers from both the AAV and the airships."
I opened up Heather as she could only understand what I had gone through and all I wished for would be for our family to be safe right after 1454 even...!
Heather looked at me and she leaned against me as she laid her head on my chest and I wrapped one of my arms around her shoulders. Suddenly I felt something cold that pooled around my chest area and I knew Heather was rather emotional about it.
"Don't think too much about it, alright dear? Besides, we have good communications with the rest of the mythical creatures and u am sure they would be able to give some ideas on how to overcome this matter effectively."
"Since that time we had suspected about the gnomes that had bombarded our town, and now we know that it was all the trolls doing, so would we be waging a war against those trolls instead?"
"Frankly, you bet that we are going to wage war against the trolls and all we need to do is to learn as much as possible about these mythical arch enemy that would be a pain in the arse if we do not plan to do anything about it."
"Besides, we have the research facilities inside the realm, Ceres would also highlight to us about the mythical arch-enemy, plus Doc and Perky, as well as Aragorn, would be able to share with us what information they could provide to us."
Heather stifled her sniffling as she cleated her throat and told me flatly, "I will be here by your side, dear. We will work together to get rid of the trolls since we had gotten rid of the orcs."
I patted her head gently as I silently held her in my arms until I could feel the steady heaving of her chest which indicates they she had fallen asleep once again on my chest due to the heaviness of her feelings that she had held close in her heart without confiding with anyone.
"God... Give me the strength to continue this so-called holy war against those monstrosities that would put humankind in a perilous state."
I had not prayed for so long and it does not stop me from saying a little prayer.
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Somewhere along the borders of Caras territory and also on a plateau, a lone greenish figure with a slight hunch and wielding a crooked kind of staff was swirling its hands about as he charged up the portal gate where a horde of four-armed freaks of nature emerged from it, one after another.
"Baj ij covas around katu agh baj ukure iav cannoav be ukeen from avhe ia eukpecialpak avhe movaumn varanat." the greenskin sorceror issued a command to the four-armed freaks of nature to build a canopy over the plateau so that it would cover up the whole area and would not be seen easily by the moving clouds.
It was referring to the airship that was shrouded by the thunderclouds that easily camouflaged it. Little did the greenskin sorceror realise that there would be 2 of those thunderclouds that would rain hailstorm on them.
"Yeuk boukuk...!" the greenskin four-armed freaks of nature responded and the sorceror was delighted when those monstrosities called it as 'boss'.
The trees were being uprooted from the nearby areas and planted back around the plateau to hide the barren space there. Even though their efforts to cover up the plateau may not seem that obvious from the sky, the four-armed freaks of nature had done a job where it would even surpass Priestess Penelope.
After some hours, the sorceror had already gotten the four-armed freaks of nature to actually cover and conceal the plateau and also the portal gate out of sight and out of mind.
There weren't any mithril mines over there but it would not stop the sorceror from using the molten lava pool which he conjured upright in the centre of the plateau.
A single molten lava pool would suffice for it to summon a single lava monster as each step the monster took, it would leave a wake of smaller molten lava pool which could be used to summon the three-headed hellhounds.
"Lat liwo geav burnav um lat plaausan wiavh zajar, punausan humanuk...!" the sorceror growled and those greenskins that heard the sorceror growled beat their chests and growled repetitively.
It seemed that the sorceror was saying that it would burn the puny humans somehow...! It's arranging its plan to take revenge for its fallen kin. The sorceror growled again and pointed its staff towards the sky as a large thunder cloud gathered over...!
It seemed that the sorceror was able to manipulate the environment as well...
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Heather who had slept peacefully on my chest finally stirred and moved from my chest as her head plopped down on her own pillow. I took the opportunity to cover her up with the blanket as I moved away from the bed and changed out from my armour pieces.
My arms were numb as Heather had lied down on it and I crept up to see how the children are doing at this moment.
The twins were sleeping peacefully in their own rooms. HRH Amy was clutching to the scrawny doll that was given to her by Clayton Chadwell and it was still in her possession, even though she does not bring it around as often as she would. She would place it near the bedside table and would only take it during bedtime.
I looked at the children and I wished that they would have a long and fulfilling life and I was nearly hoping that the event in 1453 that I had dreamt way back would not come true.
I closed the door silently and then I went over to see how is JR doing in his room after we had ticked him in.
As usual, boys would always be boys and he was sprawled and had kicked the blanket off him. I do not wish to disturb any of them but merely watched from the doorway and both of them looked very peaceful.
I sighed in my heart and wished for them to be intelligent as well as being my little own Joan of Arc and also Robin the Hood when they grow up.
I tiptoed down the stairwell and went to the living room instead. Once I reached there, I meditated as what I usually do when I was at the domain and behind in the orchards.
When I started to fuse with nature and the environment, I began to absorb the nearby essence and filled the empty reservoirs of my body and soul.
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"Fooooh... I'm bushed...! It had been so long since I meditate in this manner. Hope I could do it regularly. This helps me to perform my blacksmithing in the realm. Damm, I feel so relaxed right now. All I need to do is to take a shower and jump into bed...!"
I stepped into the bathroom on the ground floor and began to take a quick shower and when I emerged, the damn rooster was already crowing, indicating the break of dawn is near...!
"WWHHAATT? Its morning already?" I gingerly picked my clothing and walked into my bedroom where Heather was still tucked in under the covers.
I tickled her nose and whispered softly in her ears, "Good morning, my dear. Its already time to wake up and get ready to go to the launch site and inform the captains to get ready to pick up the mithril and obsidian pieces."
She fluttered her eyelids and hugged my neck and planted many kisses all over my face, as she knew that I had not slept beside her the whole night and was busy doing something instead.
After she had done so, I guessed the time for us to move on to the next chapter has arrived...!
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